Let’s be fair here. Wronwright is always a helpful soul, polishing the black helicopters until they gleam, running and fetching for Lord Karl, making sure the supply of mead is kept up (although he does tend to hoard the good stuff in that dungeon cellar of his). And you Aussies were complaining about needing rain. Well, you got it, didn’t you? So what’s a few missing lakes?

TRJS,
Refilling the lake is part of The Plan. It’s the interface between the Weather Control and the Time Travel Departments of the VRWC. Wronwright steals the lake, in his practiced fashion, then we fill it up again. Thus The Conspriracy can steal it again in a year or two. This will help the Weather Control Project make Australia habitable again, as Rebecca notes. The alternative was flinging bullroarers into the air and frankly, that wasn’t very effective. I think Karl authorized a gold star for Wronwright for this operation.

I have an important message from wronwright. He can’t be with us right now, he’s bedside with his friend and fellow brave operative, Stoop Davy Dave.

You see, there’s been a terrible accident.

The lake water is being used for a top secret VRWC experimental project. Technicians over at Q branch have been miniaturizing the water that wronwright delivers and packing it into gelatin capsules for use at some futuristic, post-apocalypse Australian desert outpost called Geothermia.

As I understand it, miniaturizing the water is the easy part. Getting it to remain stable and not dissolve the gelatin capsules from the inside was the trick. Each capsule is about the size of a regular vitamin capsule - a clever disguise - but, incredibly, holds about 120,000 US gallons. They must be handled very carefully because if the capsule dissolves the water expands instantly to its original volume.

Somebody should have told Stoop about all of this before handing him a bottle of the water pills at the Geothermia briefing yesterday. He thought they really were vitamin pills and promptly washed one down with a swig of mead.

He’s in pretty bad shape I’m afraid… well, round is a shape I suppose, but he’s very round. The doctors are doing all they can.

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